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Definition: Brass |
BrassNoun1. An alloy of copper and zinc. 2. A wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece. 3. The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a governing body and who administer something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment". 4. Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty". 5. An ornament or utensil made of brass. 6. A memorial made of brass. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brass" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Brass \Brass\, noun; plural Brasses. [Old English bras, bres, Anglo-Saxon br[ae]s; akin to Icelandic bras cement, solder, brasa to harden by fire, and to English braze, brazen. Compare to 1st & 2d Braze.]. (references) |
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Bible | Brass which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by this word in Scripture is properly copper (Deut. 8:9). It was used for fetters (Judg. 16:21; 2 Kings 25:7), for pieces of armour (1 Sam. 17:5, 6), for musical instruments (1 Chr. 15:19; 1 Cor. 13:1), and for money (Matt. 10:9). It is a symbol of insensibility and obstinacy in sin (Isa. 48:4; Jer. 6:28; Ezek. 22:18), and of strength (Ps. 107:16; Micah 4:13). The Macedonian empire is described as a kingdom of brass (Dan. 2:39). The "mountains of brass" Zechariah (6:1) speaks of have been supposed to represent the immutable decrees of God. The serpent of brass was made by Moses at the command of God (Num. 21:4-9), and elevated on a pole, so that it might be seen by all the people when wounded by the bite of the serpents that were sent to them as a punishment for their murmurings against God and against Moses. It was afterwards carried by the Jews into Canaan, and preserved by them till the time of Hezekiah, who caused it to be at length destroyed because it began to be viewed by the people with superstitious reverence (2 Kings 18:4). (See NEHUSHTAN.) The brazen serpent is alluded to by our Lord in John 3:14, 15. (See SERPENT.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of brass, denotes that you will rise rapidly in your profession, but while of apparently solid elevation you will secretly fear a downfall of fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | Alloys of copper and zinc in variable proportions, e. g. common brass used for many purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Brass Impudence. A lawyer said to a troublesome witness, "Why, man, you have brass enough in your head to make a teakettle." "And you, sir," replied the witness, "have water enough in yours to fill it." Sampson Brass. A knavish attorney; servile, affecting sympathy, but making his clients his lawful prey. (Dickens: Old Curiosity Shop. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Either of the two halves of a sleeve bearing. A half bearing generally consists of a supporting back("shell")to which a bearing lining has been bonded. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: A derogatory reference to the brass rank that officers wear. Definition: A derogatory term used by the enlisted personal of the military. Context: Use commonly after an officer has made what the enlisted think is a bad choice. Social Source: US National Guard. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. Some types of brass are called bronzes, despite their high zinc content.
Brass is a valuable manufacturing material because of its hardness and workability. Alpha brasses, with less than 40% zinc, are malleable and can be worked cold. Beta brasses, with a higher zinc content, can only be worked hot, but are harder and stronger. White brass, with more than 45% zinc, is too brittle for general use. Some types of brass have other metals added to modify their properties.
See also
Other uses of this term include: brass instrument
- Prince's metal - an alpha brass
- bronze, an alloy of copper with tin
- cupronickel, an alloy of copper with nickel.
Also refers to a metal commemorative plate laid down in British and European churches from the 13th Century onwards. These can be reproduced by brass rubbing - placing a piece of paper over the figure or inscription and rubbing with a special crayon. For more information see Monumental Brasses as Art and History ed. Jerome Bertram published by Alan Sutton. See also http://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that uses a cupped mouthpiece shaped in a way that allows the player's lips to vibrate to generate the instrument's sound. Brass instruments are usually, but not invariably, made of brass. Similarly, in musical terms, not all instruments constructed from brass belong in the category of "brass instruments"; a notable example is the saxophone, which, although usually made of brass, is a woodwind instrument.
Because the player has direct control of the prime vibrator (the lips), brass instruments exploit the player's ability to select the harmonic at which the instrument's column of air will vibrate. By making the instrument about twice as long as the equivalent woodwind instrument and starting with the second harmonic, players can get a good range of notes simply by varying the tension of their lips (see embouchure). Brass players call each harmonic a "partial".
Brass instruments generally come in one of three families:
The trumpet, trombone, French horn, and tuba are the brass instruments most often found in a symphony orchestra. See also wind instrument.
- Natural brass instruments, where the player can only play notes in the instrument's harmonic series, for example the bugle. The trumpet was a natural brass instrument prior to about 1795, and the French horn before about 1820.
- Valved brass instruments use a set of valves (typically 3 or 4 but as many as 7 or more in some cases) operated by the player's fingers that introduce a additional lengths of tubing into the instrument, changing its overall length. This family includes the modern trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, saxhorn, euphonium, tuba, Sousaphone, mellophone, and French horn. The valves are usually piston valves, but can be rotary values. Rotary valves are the norm for the French horn and are also prevalent on the tuba.
- Slide brass instruments use a slide to change the length of tubing. The main instrument in this famility is the trombone (although some valve trombones are also made) and the slide trombone's ancestor the sackbut. Some modern trombones also have rotary valves in addition to the slide. The folk instrument the bazooka is also in the slide family.
For a comparative list of the pitch of various brass instruments see pitch of brass instruments.
Some other brass instruments
See also: 20th century brass instrumentalists
- alphorn (wood)
- shofar (horn)
- Vladimirsky rozhok (wood, Russia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brass instrument."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BRASS | English | Bottom Reflecting Active Sonar System | N/A |
| Br,br. | English | Brass | N/A |
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Synonyms: BrassSynonyms: administration (n), boldness (n), cheek (n), establishment (n), face (n), governance (n), memorial tablet (n), nerve (n), organisation (n), organization (n), plaque (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless, dauntless, dreadless, aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unblanched, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching, unshrinking, unblanching, unapprehensive; confident, self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass. |
Insolence | Impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness; Adjective: effrontery, hardened front, face of brass. |
Mixture | Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation). |
Unimportance | Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent. |
Unmeaningness | Empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil; "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Brass |
| English words defined with "brass": Admiralty brass, alpha-beta brass ♦ bearing brass, Brass band, Brass meridian, brass section ♦ high brass, high-strength brass ♦ low brass ♦ naval brass ♦ red brass. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "brass": Corinthian Brass, Cyprian Brass ♦ Man of Brass. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "brass": Verdigris. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Brass" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (brace). |
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Screenplays | There is what you have, which is garbage and you can see where thats gotten you. There is brass, which is very good as long as nothing goes wrong (Moonstruck; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley. Starring Cher as Loretta Castorini and Nicolas Cage as Ronny Cammareri.) A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon (The Abominable Dr. Phibes; writing credit: James Whiton; William Goldstein) | |
Lyrics | GOT BRASS IN POCKET (BRASS IN POCKET; performing artist: The Pretenders) The cracked brass bells will ring; (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Beat of the Brass (1968) Blades and Brass (1967) Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966) The Brass Bottle (1964) Bold as Brass (1964) | |
Song Titles | Brass In Pocket (performing artist: The Pretenders) | |
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 | Launch lunch on Inner Brass Island Launch lunch was a venerable institution on hydrographic ships Usually consisted of bread, bologna, and whatever else could be put in a cooler Always generated gripes but no one ever starved Tide gauge installation crew breaking for lunch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cod line hand gear - Fig. 1 - Lead sinker with brass horse and swivels Fig. 2 - George's Bank gear with sling-ding, &c Fig. 3 - Hand-line gear for shoal water Drawing by Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | This brass signal lantern was the first artifact recovered from the MONITOR. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | Accumulator with dredging block hooked; safety hook; brass washer. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate VIII p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 26. Effects of pressure on different types of hollow tubes as studied by John Young Buchanan, both during his experiences on the CHALLENGER expedition and with Prince Albert I of Monaco on the PRINCESS ALICE II in 1902. Buchanan published his study of hyperpressure effects in 1903. The brass tube, copper sphere, and debris from a Portier and Richard bottle were all studied in 1902. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Historical BLM brass cap marks cadastral survey of a township corner. Credit: Unknown. |
 | "Aftermath -- Amidst scattered brass casings, a lone sailor observes the enemy coastline as the cruiser USS Manchester (CL-83), her shore bombardment completed, steams away from Wonsan Harbor." Photo and caption released by Commander Naval Forces Far East, under date of 7 July 1953. A heavy cruiser is visible in the center distance, beyond Manchester's fantail. Credit: NAVY. |  | Chase Brass and Copper Co. building, Waterbury, Conn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Emilie Geyelin house (Devon, Pa.). Brass hinges and key plates. Elevation and section] / Iron-Craftsmen. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | You brass trumpet!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "African brass band" by John Philip Commentary: "African brass band." | "Candle, brass, darkness" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "People will look at you funny when you're taking closeup shots of a candle in a bar (if you use this i'd love to hear from you -- thanks)." |
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 | A digital big band style excerpt typical of the retro-swing genre featuring synthesized brass and percussion. . | | A synthesized string and brass section playing a short commercial cue. |
| Orchestral percussion and brass in an epic film score style. | | Little brass bell ringing. |
| Ringing a brass bell . | | A mid synthesized brass note. |
| Brass instrument low note. | ||
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Earl and Chesterfield | Even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. |
Horace | He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. |
Virgil | Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred lips, a throat of iron and a chest of brass, I could not tell nen's countless sufferings. |
William Shakespeare | Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Even while musing, he turned unconsciously, and his eyes encountered the brass knob of the door which separated him from the hall of the assizes |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A denim coat with brass buttons and a spotted brown hat creased like a pork pie lay on the ground beside him. |
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Economic History | Nigeria | In the south central part of present-day Nigeria, as early as the 15th and 16th centuries, the kingdom of Benin had developed an efficient army; an elaborate ceremonial court; and artisans whose works in ivory, wood, bronze, and brass are prized throughout the world today. (references) |
Nigeria | In the northern cities of Kano and Katsina, recorded history dates back to approximately 1000 AD. In the centuries that followed, these Hausa kingdoms and the Bomu empire near Lake Chad prospered as important terminals of north-south trade between North African Berbers and forest people who exchanged slaves, ivory, and kola nuts for salt, glass beads, coral, cloth, weapons, brass rods, and cowrie shells used as currency. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook |
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| "Brass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.52% of the time. "Brass" is used about 1,319 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.52% | 1,273 | 6,179 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.59% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.06% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.53% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.23% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,319 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "brass" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Brass | Last name | 1,000 | 14,394 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "brass". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nehushta | N/A | Biblical | Made of brass |
| Nehushtan | N/A | Biblical | A trifling thing of brass |
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| USA | Brass Eagle Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "brass": admiralty brass ♦ alpha brass ♦ as bold as brass ♦ bearing brass ♦ bold as brass ♦ brass band ♦ brass buttons ♦ brass Castle ♦ brass farthing ♦ brass foil ♦ brass hat ♦ brass instrument ♦ brass knuckles ♦ brass knucks ♦ Brass leaf ♦ brass maker ♦ Brass meridian ♦ brass monkey ♦ brass plaque ♦ brass plate ♦ brass sand ♦ brass section ♦ brass valve ♦ brass wire ♦ cartridge brass ♦ Dutch brass ♦ face of brass ♦ German brass ♦ German or Dutch brass ♦ get down to brass tacks ♦ high brass ♦ lantern brass ♦ latten brass ♦ low brass ♦ naval brass ♦ not to care a brass farthing ♦ red brass ♦ sheet brass ♦ the brass ♦ top brass ♦ white brass. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "brass": brass-band, brass-banded, brass-bound, brass-buttoned, brass-cased, brass-coloured, brass-dialled, brass-domed, brass-dresser, brass-ended, brass-faced, brass-finished, brass-finisher, brass-finishing, brass-founder, brass-founding, brass-framed, brass-gonged, brass-hat, brass-hats, brass-hilted, brass-hooped, brass-inlaid, brass-lacquered, brass-making, brass-mongery, brass-necked, brass-plated, brass-polishing, brass-railed, brass-reel, brass-rimmed, brass-rubbing, brass-rule, brass-studded, brass-tipped, brass-topped, brass-trade, Brass-visaged, brass-wire, brass-work, brass-works. | |
Ending with "brass": bell-brass, gilt-brass, horse-brass, polished-brass, zinc-brass. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
brass | 656 | brass rail | 64 |
brass knuckles | 443 | brass switchplates | 57 |
baldwin brass | 307 | brass etching | 56 |
brass eagle | 289 | brass plaque | 55 |
tinto brass | 280 | brass door knocker | 52 |
brass bed | 241 | brass eagle paintball gun | 52 |
brass hardware | 172 | canadian brass | 52 |
brass monkey | 151 | clean brass | 50 |
brass bell | 147 | franklin brass | 48 |
brass mail box | 122 | brass tubing | 48 |
newport brass | 104 | brass eagle paintball | 47 |
brass ring | 104 | brass clan clock oak | 46 |
brass cleaning | 101 | brass buckle | 45 |
brass instrument | 97 | brass telescope | 45 |
brass lamp | 90 | brass starline | 45 |
brass fitting | 86 | brass elkhart | 45 |
brass band | 84 | brass clan clock heraldic oak | 44 |
brass boot | 76 | dirty dozen brass band | 42 |
brass chandelier | 69 | brass hinge | 42 |
brass cleaner | 65 | akron brass | 42 |
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| Language | Translations for "brass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tunxh, paturpësi (backchat, cheek, effrontery, face, gall, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, indecency, insolence, lewdness, liberty, lubricity, sauce, shamelessness, wantonness), instrument fryme. (various references) | |
Arabic | كبار الضباط, نقود (dibs, rock, shekels, silver), لوحة نحاسية, الصفر النحاس الاصفر, آنية معدنية براقة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | месинг, безсрамие (bounce, immodesty, impudence, impudicity, shamelessness), пиринч, духови инструменти (wind). (various references) | |
Chinese | 黃銅 , 黄铜. (various references) | |
Czech | prachy (dough, loot, needful), plechy, mosazný (brassy, brazen), mosaz, drzost (audacity, cheek, effrontery, face, front, impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, rudeness, sauce), dechové nástroje. (various references) | |
Danish | messing (sapwood). (various references) | |
Dutch | messing, geelkoper. (various references) | |
Esperanto | latuno, latuna, flava kupro. (various references) | |
Farsi | پول خردبرنجی , افسرارشد, بی شرمی (Indecency). (various references) | |
Finnish | messinkinen, messinki, liuskalaakeri (bearing half, half bearing). (various references) | |
French | laiton. (various references) | |
German | messing (ormolu), blechbläser. (various references) | |
Greek | μπρούτζινοσ, μπρούτζος (bronze), πνευστό όργανο (horn, tuba, wind instrument), ημικουζινέτο (bearing half, half bearing), αναίδεια (brazeness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, effrontery, impudence), ορείχαλκοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פליז (copper), נחושת (bronze, copper), נחושה (copper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárgaréz (ormolu, yellow brass), vörösöntvény, sárgaréztábla, réztábla (copperplate), rézfúvósok (brass winds, brasses), réz síremléklap, pofátlanság (cheek), pénz (argent, bean, beans, billy, boodle, chink, chips, coinage, currency, dumps, green folding, green stuff, lolly, monetary, money, needful, pelf, posh, snide, store of money, tainted money, wampum), merészség (boldness, bravery, cockiness, daring, foolhardiness, intrepidity), dohány (boodle, chink, dough, lolly, rhino, scads, tin, tobacco, weed), cégtábla (facia, sign, sign-board), bronz (bronze, metal), ágyúbronz, ágyúérc. (various references) | |
Indonesian | uang (money, pocket book), pembesar (an official, high ranking), kuningan, kelancangan (boldness, brashness, sauciness), gangsa. (various references) | |
Italian | ottone. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 黄銅 , 真鍮 , ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうどう (ecliptic, principles of royalty, rule of right), ブラス , しんちゅう (in one's heart, mind, occupation, stationing, true motives, within one's body), こうどう (action, auditorium, behaviour, conduct, ecliptic, filial piety, justice, level, mobilization, public road, the benevolent Imperial rule, the Imperial Way, traditional incense-smelling game, tunnel, you, your beautiful home). (various references) | |
Korean | 고급장교. (various references) | |
Manx | prash (boodle, brass-ware, dough). (various references) | |
Norwegian | messing. (various references) | |
Papiamen | koper hel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | assbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | latão, bronze (bronze, bushing). (various references) | |
Romanian | bani de metal, pãrãlet, obrãznicie (audacity, blunder, break, cheek, coolness, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, lip, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, sauce, trespass, unruliness), neruşinare (bawdy, cheek, effrontery, front, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, lack of restraint, neck, obsceneness, rudeness, shamelessness), instrumente de suflat din alamã, de alamã (brassy, brazen, latten), aramã (copper), alamã (brasses, latten, yellow metal), alãmuri, alãmi. (various references) | |
Russian | медь медный, желтая медь, латунь (composition-metal), бесстыдство (effrontery, front, immodesty, impudence, shamelessness). (various references) | |
Scottish | prais. (various references) | |
Sepedi | porase. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pleh, metalni delovi odeće, mesing. (various references) | |
Spanish | latón. (various references) | |
Swedish | mässing, fräckhet (audacity, cheek, cheekiness, coolness, face, front, gall, impudence, insolence, moxie, nerve, rudeness, sauce, wickedness). (various references) | |
Thai | ไร้ยางอาย ((as) bold as brass). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüksek rütbeli subaylar, pirinçten yapılmış eşya veya kaide, pirinçten yapılmış (brazen), pirinçle kaplamak, pirinç (bell metal, brazen, rice, yellow metal), para (boodle, bread, cash, chink, chip, coffers, coin, currency, dough, ducat, dust, filthy lucre, funds, green, Jack, kale, lolly, lucre, means, monetary, money, oof, pay dirt, pecuniary, purse, rhino, rock, shekels, shiners, sugar, tin, wherewithal), mangır (bread, doit, dough, dust, Jack, kale, lolly, money, oof, rhino), küstahlık (arrogance, assuredness, audaciousness, audacity, back chat, backchat, boldness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpa, chutzpah, effrontery, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hardiness, impertinence, insolence, lip, pertness, presumption, temerity), cüret (audacity, boldness, chutzpa, chutzpah, daring, derring-do, forwardness, front, hardihood, hardiness, nerve, presumption, temerity, venture). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гроші (balsam, bean, blunt, cash, charm, chink, clink, dibs, dime, dough, l.s.d., money, moo, necessary, needful, ocher, ochre, oil, oof, pelf, posh, scads, shekels, sugar, the stuff, treasure, wherewithal), мідний посуд, мідний (brazen, copper), латунь, латунний (brassy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự trơ tráo (cheekiness, imperence), ống lót (bolster), đồng thau đồ vật làm bằng đồng thau. (various references) | |
Welsh | pres (bronze, copper, money), efydd (bronze, copper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aerarii, aerario, aerarios, aerarium, aerarius, aerea, aeream, aereas, aerei, aereis, aereo, aereos, aereum, aurichalcum, orichalcum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 7, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai apo agoraV ean mh baptiswntai ouk esqiousin kai alla polla estin a parelabon kratein baptismouV pothriwn kai xestwn kai calkiwn kai klinwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et a foro nisi baptizentur non comedunt et alia multa sunt quae tradita sunt illis servare baptismata calicum et urceorum et aeramentorum et lectorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & on stræte hi ne ætað. buton hyo geþwegenbeon. & manege oðre synde þeheom ge-sette synde. þt is calice frymþa & ceaca. & apfata & manslage. (sic). |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne thei turnen ayen fro chepyng, thei eten not, but thei ben waisschen; and many other thingis ben, `that ben taken `to hem to kepe, wasschyngis of cuppis, and of watir vessels, and of vessels of bras, and of beddis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And whe they come from the market except they washe they eate not. And many other thinges ther be which they have taken apon them to observe as the wasshinge of cuppes and cruses and of brasen vessels and of tables. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there are, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, and of brazen vessels, and tables. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 7, Verse 4 |
| Croatian | Niti s trga što jedu ako prije ne operu. Mnogo toga još ima što zbog predaje drže: pranje èaša, vrèeva i lonaca. |
| Danish | og når de komme fra Torvet, spise de ikke uden først at tvætte sig; og der er mange andre Ting, som de have vedtaget at holde, Tvætninger af Bægere og Krus og Kobberkar og Bænke, |
| Dutch | En van de markt komende, eten zij niet, tenzij dat zij eerst gewassen zijn. En vele andere dingen zijn er, die zij aangenomen hebben te houden, als namelijk de wassingen der drinkbekers, en kannen, en koperen vaten, en bedden. |
| Finnish | ja torilta tultuaan he eivät syö, ennenkuin ovat itseään vedellä vihmoneet; ja paljon muuta on, mitä he ovat ottaneet noudattaakseen, niinkuin maljain ja kiviastiain ja vaskiastiain pesemisiä. |
| French | et, quand ils reviennent de la place publique, ils ne mangent qu`après s`être purifiés. Ils ont encore beaucoup d`autres observances traditionnelles, comme le lavage des coupes, des cruches et des vases d`airain. |
| Gaelic | Agus ma thig iad bhon mhargadh, chan ith iad gun ionnlad; `s tha iomadh ni eile ann, a tha air an orduchadh dhaibh a chumail, mar tha nighe chupaichean, is phoitean, is shoitheachan praise. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Apa yang dibeli di pasar tidak akan dimakan, sebelum dicuci terlebih dahulu. Dan banyak peraturan lain dari nenek moyang mereka yang mereka pegang teguh; seperti misalnya peraturan mencuci gelas, mangkuk, dan perkakas-perkakas tembaga. |
| Italian | e tornando dal mercato non mangiano senza aver fatto le abluzioni, e osservano molte altre cose per tradizione, come lavature di bicchieri, stoviglie e oggetti di rame - |
| Latvian | Un tie, pârnâkuði no tirgus, neçd, kamçr nav mazgâjuðies; un ir vçl daudz cita, kas tiem uzdots pildît: kâ biíeru, krûþu, vara trauku un guïamvietu mazgâðana. |
| Maori | E kore ano ratou e kai ina hoki mai i te kainga hokohoko, ki te mea kahore i horoi. He maha hoki era atu mea tuku iho kia puritia e ratou, nga horoinga o anga kapu, o nga pata, o nga mea parahi, o nga nohoanga. |
| Norwegian | og når de kommer fra torvet, eter de ikke før de har vasket sig, og det er meget annet som de har vedtatt å holde: vaskninger av beger og krus og kobberkar og benker. |
| Portuguese | e quando voltam do mercado, se não se purificarem, não comem. E muitas outras coisas há que receberam para observar, como a lavagem de copos, de jarros e de vasos de bronze. |
| Rumanian | Wi cknd se kntorc din piayq, nu mqnkncq deckt dupqce s`au scqldat. Sknt multe alte obiceiuri pe cari au apucat ei sq le yinq, precum: spqlarea paharelor, a ulcioarelor, a cqldqrilor wi a paturilor. - |
| Spanish | Cuando vuelven del mercado, si no se lavan, no comen. Y hay muchas otras cosas que aceptaron para guardar, como los lavamientos de las copas, de los jarros y de los utensilios de bronce y de los divanes. |
| Swahili | Tena hawali kitu chochote kutoka sokoni mpaka wamekiosha kwanza.*fc* Kuna pia desturi nyingine walizopokea kama vile namna ya kuosha vikombe, sufuria na vyombo vya shaba. |
| Swedish | likasom de icke heller, när de komma från torget, äta något utan att förut hava tvagit sig; många andra stadgar finnas ock, som de av ålder pläga hålla, såsom att skölja bägare och träkannor och kopparskålar. |
| Uma | Ane nculii' -ra ngkai pomako' -ra hi rala ngata, kana moniu' -ra ulu ntuku' ada kako'ia-ra mpoganga pongkoni'. Pai' wori' wo'o-pi ada to ratarima ngkai totu'a-ra to ratuku' lia, hewa rapa' -na ada mpobohoi' sangkiri', kura pai' rewa to rababehi ngkai ngkala. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "brass": brassage, brassages, brassard, brassards, brassart, brassarts, brassbound, brassed, brasserie, brasseries, brasses, brassica, brassicas, brassie, brassier, brassiere, brassieres, brassies, brassiest, brassily, brassiness, brassinesses, brassing, brassish, brassy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "brass": zebrass. (additional references) | |
Words containing "brass": zebrasses. (additional references) | |
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"Brass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baass, Barass, Barassa, Berjasa, blass, Bnass, boass, Bpas, brashs, braws, braz, Brazos, Brazzo, Brecsu, Bresis, brests, Bris, brisq, briss, Brisse, bross, brosys, Brusc, Bruss, Burdass, byass, frass, Krass, mrass, rass, rbas, wrass. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brass" (pronounced bra"s) |
| 4 | b r a" s | bras. |
| 3 | -r a" s | crass, grass, Ras. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: arbs, bars, bass, bras, sabs. | |
-2 letters: abs, arb, ars, ass, bar, bas, bra, ras, sab. | |
-3 letters: ab, ar, as, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: brassy, bursas, sabers, sabirs, sabras, sabres. | |
+2 letters: abasers, absorbs, absurds, abusers, adsorbs, barless, bashers, basters, braises, braless, brashes, brasils, brassed, brasses, brassie, breasts, bursars, busbars, disbars, isobars, rubasse, sambars, samburs, scarabs, serdabs, surbase, zebrass. | |
+3 letters: abrosias, abstruse, airbuses, arabesks, ascribes, barbless, bareness, barkless, baroness, bastards, besmears, beswarms, blasters, boasters, borstals, brashest, brasiers, brassage, brassard, brassart, brassica, brassier, brassies, brassily, brassing, brassish, britskas, bustards, crossbar, dabsters, debasers, drabness, garbless, isobares, passerby, rasboras, ribgrass, robustas, rosebays, rubasses, sambhars, sambhurs, sandbars, sandburs, saprobes, scabrous, seabirds, sidebars, slabbers, sorbates, stabbers, stablers, subadars, subareas, subparts, subraces, subsolar, surbased, surbases, swabbers, vibrissa. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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